Synodic month length 29.54 days

Length of current 169 lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 58 minutes. It is 43 minutes longer than next lunation 170 length.

Lunation length longer than mean

Length of current synodic month is 14 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 6 hours and 49 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.

Lunar orbit position on 17 September 2013 Tuesday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠249.2°

This lunation true anomaly is ∠249.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠285.3°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Moon after perigee

1 day after point of perigee on 15 September 2013 at 16:34 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 27 September 2013 at 18:17 in ♋ Cancer.

Distance to Moon 369 683 km

Moon before descending node

7 days after its ascending node on 9 September 2013 at 17:29 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 5 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 22 September 2013 at 13:48 in ♉ Taurus.

Draconic month

Moon after southern standstill

4 days after previous South standstill on 12 September 2013 at 18:30 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-19.685°. Next 8 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠19.599° in the next northern standstill on 26 September 2013 at 01:03 in ♊ Gemini.